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Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.
JMP accelerates exploration and discovery, giving you new ways to visualize and understand your data and share your findings with others. Analysis is faster, especially with large data sets, and you get more options for drag-and-drop graph-building, as well as new tools for analyzing quality and reliability data, designing efficient experiments, interactively comparing models, creating customized applications, and more.
NetID services take information from the HR or student system and create unified Northwestern credentials (NetIDs) that are then connected with information about each individual. NetIDs are then used as the primary way for people to interact with IT services. Other types of NetIDs can be created as well for specific people, organizations, or IT system purposes.
CAESAR is Northwestern’s system of record for student data. Students, faculty, advisers, parents, guardians, and staff use CAESAR to manage classes and grades, pay bills, view financial aid, process admissions, and maintain demographic data.
WFS Timekeeping is the University's official time entry system of record.
CrowdStrike Falcon is Northwestern's licensed software application for protecting Northwestern-owned and managed machines and devices against viruses and other malware. For personally owned devices and machines not managed by the University, it is critical that students, faculty, and staff members install antivirus software, update virus definitions, and run virus scans daily.
Bookings with me in Outlook is a web-based personal scheduling page that integrates with the free/busy information from your Outlook calendar.
NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.
Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.
iBuyNU is a web-based ordering tool integrated into NUFinancials. It provides departments and schools with a streamlined, cost effective way to order from University Preferred Vendors.
NUFinancials is the centerpiece of the University’s financial management systems. It supports the accounting and budgeting functions that feed the University’s general ledger, and works with related reporting, facilities management, purchasing, sponsored research, financial forecasting, and annual budgeting systems.
Northwestern has licensed the CrowdStrike Falcon software application for protecting managed endpoints against viruses, malware, and ransomware. This solution is an integral component of endpoint security, which utilizes artificial intelligence and a lightweight agent, providing visibility into the entire threat lifecycle and allowing IT and security professionals to act quickly and effectively to critical security events on Windows, Mac, and Linux devices.
OneDrive offers secure, cloud-based storage that lets you seamlessly collaborate and access files from anywhere in the world, at any time.
The Graduate Student Progress (GSP) allows programs to track graduate student progress and view many elements of graduate student activity in one place.
Copilot is Microsoft’s AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently.
Northwestern University's agreement with Adobe offers the full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite for use by eligible faculty and staff.
The Information Security Policy Exception form for requesting an exception to a related Policy or Standard.
Students, Researchers, and Faculty who have active netID can obtain access to the MATLAB by signing into the Northwestern MATLAB Portal.
Qualtrics is an easy-to-use, web-based tool for creating and conducting full-featured online surveys.
The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.
CatConnect is Northwestern's web-based system of record for alumni and donor information. Its modules support school and central Alumni Relations and Development staff in prospect management, gift development, committee and volunteer management, alumni and donor relations, and alumni event tracking.
GitHub provides hosting for git repositories and other services and tools for software development teams.
Directory services help provide people and systems with the ability to look up information about people based on various criteria from things as simple as their name to their Northwestern school affiliation, degree programs, etc. Directory Services include the Northwestern online directory, the ADS Active Directory forest, the LDAP directory, and various others.
Dryad is a non-profit, community-governed data repository for publishing research data to comply with funder and publisher requirements. Submissions are self-deposited and vetted by Dryad curators.
Northwestern IT Workflow Services assists University departments with identifying workflow issues or improvements, introducing workflow tools, and providing workflow best practices.